Haven't seen Warren. Watched Partridge last night and agree - just too cringey. He's an extraordinary actor and character - that second season, in the Travel Tavern, was wonderful. Last night's episode got the balance wrong for me - it was a cringe from start to finish.

I thought it got better as the first episode progressed. Didn’t think the format worked too well to begin with - the Larry Sanders style off camera conversations took a while to bed in - but it did get better. The interview with the hacktivist was the highlight and this was the bit I thought was closest to Knowing Me Knowing You.

I thought that Warren was a retread of "Doc Martin", and several other grumpy gits that Clunes has portrayed. He seems to be typecast in roles that are the opposite of what he is really like in real life.

Haven't seen Warren but quite enjoyed Partridge. Admittedly the Clunt/Fluck gag was the one that stuck in the mind, although I thought the failure of the 'expert' to operate the giant touchscreen was a good piss-take too.

I thought the second Partridge episode was good but weaker than the first, and I thought the opposite of Warren which had some very good lines. I liked the on-line reviews of Warren's Driving School in particular. I'm persevering with it.

Listened to an old Alan Partridge from 1992 last night and the character has changed quite a bit since then. Particularly the voice. In 1992 he was still mainly a David Coleman parody. But the viscious streak was still there.

One of the recent episodes of Partridge had him practising his CPR technique on a dummy at home. Very cringeworthy but I had to laugh when he said he doesn't use the rhythm of Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees, as he prefers Another One Bites The Dust.

I remember first time i heard Knowing Me... on the radio. turned on randomly, didn't note that it was the 6.30 comedy slot on R4, and took me 10 mins or so to realise it was a spoof. At first just thinking 'blimey this guy's awful' then finally the penny dropped.

Yeah I thought the same about the excellent and not-very-far-from-the-truth Down the Line, though the Fast Show performers' voices gave the game away. KMKY with Alan Partridge did have the studio laughter but one of its great achievements was not just the character but the performances sounded spontaneous where radio comedy has a tendency to sound like a lot of script-reading (he also apparently used to perform it in the jacket and hair).

I think for me there might be a problem with the 'youthing up' of Alan, particularly since the film, which was probably my least favourite outing. He's highly aware of political sensibilities these days and rarely let's the mask slip.

Bourbons were solely designed to see us through the three or four years of fallout following a medium nuclear exchange. Eating or liking them is any other circumstance is wrong. And that's the end of it.

A bourbon or a custard cream (not both, obviously, we're not decadent) with a cup of tea is sufficient excitement for anybody. Modern biscuits with their external chocolate and their . . . well, I can only describe it as flavours . . . would be better suited to some devil-worshipping witches' coven. You're not one of them satanists are you?

The coated side of a milk chocolate digestive biscuit
Digestive biscuits are also available, coated on the underside with milk, dark or white chocolate. Originally produced by McVitie's in 1925 in the UK as the Chocolate Homewheat Digestive, other varieties include the basic biscuit with chocolate shavings throughout (chocolate "chips" in the biscuit mix), or a layer of caramel, mint chocolate, orange-flavoured chocolate,[17] or plain chocolate. American travel writer Bill Bryson described the chocolate digestive as "a British masterpiece".[18] The McVitie's chocolate digestive is the most popular biscuit in the UK to dunk into tea.[4]

In pop culture

McVitie's digestive biscuits have become known among fans of the rock group The Beatles because they were the cause of an argument between George Harrison and John Lennon during a recording session for the group's 1969 album Abbey Road. The incident was recounted by recording engineer Geoff Emerick in his book Here, There, and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles.[19] According to Emerick, Lennon's wife Yoko Ono was in the recording studio and at one point helped herself to Harrison's box of McVitie's while the Beatles were in the control room listening to a playback of the song they'd just recorded. Harrison got angry at Ono, and his subsequent outburst caused Lennon to lose his temper in response.'